Golf-ball.



No. 7l6.945, Patented Dec. 30, 902. L M. SELZER.

GOLF BALL.

Applicntion filed July 18, 1902.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LAWRENCE M. SELZER, OF AKRON, OHIO.

GOLF- BALL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 716,946, dated December30, 1902.

Application filed July 18, 1902. $erial No. 116,050. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE M. SELZER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Golf-Balls, of whichthe following is a complete specification.

My invention has relation toimproveinents in golf-balls.

The object of my invention is to produce a new and improved golf-ballthat shall combine great resiliency with tenacity to prevent fractureand firmness of exterior to prevent abrasion.

To the accomplishment of the aforesaid object my invention consists inthe peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of partshereinafter described and to the peculiar process by which the same arecomwith a firm cord 2, a linen cord being preferred for this purpose.

The cord-covered center is again rolled or otherwise evenly coated withpowdered resin, and the ball thus constructed is coated with hot meltedguttapercha 3 and then pressed in a metallic mold consisting of twointernally hemispherical, preferablybrass, cups and allowed to cooltherein. The interiors of these molds are indented at intervals withconical or other shaped indentations to form slight projections 4 on theexterior of the completed ball.

This ball when first constructed is elliptical or egg-shaped, and whenplaced in the molds the molds are centrally in line of the major axis ofthe ellipse.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

An improved golf-ball consisting of a spherical core of elasticvulcanized rubber, a coating thereon of resin, a wrapping of firm cord,a second coating of resin on said cord, and an outer shell or case ofgutta-percha, said outer case being provided with external projections,substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set my hand in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

LAIVRENCE M. SELZER.

In presence of- G. P. H MPHREY, O. E. HUMPHREY.

